Buried In The Rain by Barbara Michaels

Author:Barbara Michaels [Michaels, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-29T01:47:08+00:00

Chapter 8

STOPPED BREATHING. MARTHA’S FINGERS CROOKED AND

twitched. She looked as if she wanted to slap me, but lacked the strength. Her other hand fumbled at the box that now lay open on the bed beside her. It was filled with an untidy tangle of objects, mostly sewing materials spools of thread, scraps of cloth. And newspaper clippings.

The clipping she indicated had not been neatly cut out. It was ripped and crumpled. She must have done it herself, struggling to overcome the handicap that had paralyzed one arm.

“You’ve known all along,” I gasped. “Matt was so worried about your finding out … Why didn’t you say something before this?”

Martha’s lip curled. She never explained her actions or her failure to act. “Bones,” she repeated insistently.

“Where?”

I didn’t know what to say so I sought refuge in the truth.

“We buried them in our cemetery,” I said. “Nobody knew who they were or where they came from, so …”

The sounds coming from her parted lips froze my voice and sent chills coursing —through my body….ey rese…bicd the screeching of rusty hinges, but after a while I realized she was laughing.

For once I was glad to return to Bleak House. It had been, to say the least, an unnerving ten minutes. Martha had been, for her, absolutely garrulous; she had asked questions and even answered a few. What had happened to shake her out of her customary close-mouthed habits? Could it have been something I said? She had only heard my side of the conversation with Matt, and I couldn’t recall having made any startling pronouncements. Something about a woman coming to the house, causing trouble … When Martha found out it was Hornbeak I was talking about, she had appeared relieved. was there some other woman she feared, as she did not fear the psychic? Then the sudden change of subject, from shotguns to skeletons, and her horrible, eerie laughter

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